myON goes GLOBAL

A big thank you to Nate Swenson, who as a member of the Capstone Digital team of consultant is a guest writer for this week's myON blog post. Nate is currently teaching at the American International School of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

Students at the American International School of
Jeddah (AISJ) in Saudi Arabia, have been battling for 60 years with the
struggle over language.

Most of the students who attend AISJ are not
native English language speakers and some students have English as their third,
fourth, or fifth language. Arabic is the language of Saudi Arabia and
most students live in homes where no English is spoken , while others are
exposed to very limited or broken English. It is extremely hard to
learn a language when you do not get he opportunity to hear
the correct version of it on a consistent basis. Enter, myON.

AISJ has implemented the myON library in grades
prek-5 and students are thriving with this amazing

resource. Students
access books on an individual basis at school during the day and then are able
to hear proper English as they read at home. They love the idea that they
are able to find books that they are interested in at their own reading level.
For students to do this in our normal library, they must look through
shelves of books, find one that looks interesting, then check to see if it is
at their level.

In one of the classes,
students have completely read over 3000 books in just three months. Parents love to see their children exposed to English in the evening and
many sit with their children and read the books together. Teachers have
seen significant improvement in fluency, comprehension, and overall vocabulary
of the students who have read the most books. myON has had an amazing
impact on the students of AISJ and parents love to see their children reading
for pleasure at home. AISJ is so glad that we have implemented this
program and students look forward to seeing the new books as they are added to
the library.

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